{"id":17,"date":"2002-04-28T23:48:56","date_gmt":"2002-04-28T18:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/17"},"modified":"2002-04-28T23:48:56","modified_gmt":"2002-04-28T18:48:56","slug":"i-really-hate-dealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/17","title":{"rendered":"I really hate dealing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really hate dealing with idiots.  I sold something on eBay to a guy who apparently used to be on home.com but never bothered to update his email address.  Strike #1.  Then he updated it, I emailed him and told him to either Paypal me or let me know if he wanted to send a money order so I could provide a snail mail address, and he sent back a snippy reply saying that I didn&#8217;t give him an address.  Strike #2.  Next idiot thing he does, I&#8217;m going off on him.<\/p>\n<p>After searching all over the darn town for nice outdoor furniture, we found some at the grocery store, of all places.  Tonight we reclaimed our <a href=\"porch.jpg\">porch<\/a> (that&#8217;s not our stuff, it&#8217;s the previous owner&#8217;s) and put a table and chairs out there.  Then we sat down and had a really cold beer.  Delicioso!<\/p>\n<p>I know, I know, you&#8217;re asking &#8220;But where are the wastes of <i>time<\/i>?  I want my wastes of time!  First, I must direct you to the <a href=\"http:\/\/pub42.bravenet.com\/forum\/show.php?usernum=3597206885&#038;cpv=1\">Waste of Time Forum<\/a>, where you may chat with fellow time-wasters to your heart&#8217;s content.  <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www18.big.or.jp\/~mnaka\/cat3.html\">Tesselating Animation<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\">Deja Vu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rathergood.com\/kittens\/\">Meow!<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/db.phenet.com\/catalog\/adammale\/product.html?code=1560\">For the endowed-challenged<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.netives.com\/content.jsp?object=\/Games.web\/Marbles.web\/Play.inc.jsp\">It&#8217;s kinda like Bejeweled, but not<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really hate dealing with idiots. I sold something on eBay to a guy who apparently used to be on home.com but never bothered to update his email address. Strike #1. Then he updated it, I emailed him and told him to either Paypal me or let me know if he wanted to send a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}